Showing posts with label linguistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linguistics. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Babble On

Languages of the World - Information about the language families of the world and their most important and populous members.

Monday, October 15, 2007

IMNSHO

How to Understand Chat Acronyms - Can't understand the "IM Language" or "chat slang" the kids are typing?

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Alchemical Key

The Voynich manuscript is a five hundred year-old relic discovered in 1912 at a library in Rome, consisting of 240 pages of illustrations and writing in a language not known to anyone. Deciphering the text has eluded even the best cryptographers and some have even dismissed the book an entertaining but lengthy hoax. But a statistical analysis of the writing shows that the manuscript does seem to follow the basic structure and laws of a working language.

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Crim's A Spoon

The Double-Tongued Dictionary records undocumented or under-documented words from the fringes of English, with a focus on slang, jargon, and new words.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Pet Sounds

In different languages what do we say to mimic animal sounds? The world's biggest multilingual list

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Not Literally Literary

Literally, A Web Log - An English language grammar blog tracking abuse of the word “literally”.